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. | Mr. Caliskan, you graduated from the German School in Istanbul and have translated Brecht poems into Turkish. What did you think when you first heard about the fire in Ludwigshafen?
Kerem Caliskan: I thought: “Oh my God, have the started another fire?” I wasn’t able to sleep the whole night. Of course, the fire could have been caused by a short circuit, a |
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. | He also accused Nato and the United States of failing to respond to Moscow’s security concerns, in a televised speech on Friday.
“It is already clear that a new arms race is being unleashed in the world,” Putin said at a state council meeting of ministers governors and parliament members in Moscow. |
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. | But that is an unappealing prospect to some conservative white evangelical Protestants, whose support could prove to be the difference in the November election against a galvanized Democratic Party.
McCain is an abortion-rights foe but his failure to support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and backing of embryonic stem-cell research are among the political heresies that some conservative evangelicals cannot forgive him for. |
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. | An estimated 10,000 people, including various civil society organizations, joined in a march and protest in Izmir against proposed changes to the Turkish Constitution backed by the ruling AKP and the opposition MHP which would lift current bans against the headscarf in Turkish universities. |
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. | The four are alleged to be part of a group assigned to kill Bhutto, a former prime minister who was campaigning in Rawalpindi ahead of elections, in a gun and bomb attack on December 27.
Bhutto had been in self-imposed exile for years and had survived an earlier bomb attack upon her return. |
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. | Balabayov was foiled during anti-terror operations in the southern region of Dagestan. Member of the illegal armed group Ramazan Vahabov was also killed as a result of anti-terror operations in Avadan village. Nine terrorists have been killed during the operations led by chief of Dagestan Federal Security Service Vyacheslav Shanshin and Interior Ministry in Tabasaran, Darband, Suleyman Stalski and other southern regions since January 8. |
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. | “If I fight on in my campaign … I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win.”
Romney’s move effectively seals the Republican nomination for John McCain, the Arizona senator currently leading in the race. |